Kenneth Welsh (30 March 1942–5 May 2022; age 80) was an actor who played Senna Tal in the Star Trek: Discovery third season episodes "People of Earth" and "Forget Me Not".
Welsh was well-known for playing the villain, Windom Earle, in the second season of Twin Peaks (1990-91), in which he appeared alongside Mädchen Amick, Richard Beymer, Joan Chen, Clarence Williams III, Tony Jay, Catherine Coulson, David Warner, Brenda Strong, Miguel Ferrer, Michael John Anderson and Carel Struycken. He also played Doctor John H. Watson next to Matt Frewer's Sherlock Holmes in four Hallmark Channel TV movies. He portrayed President Harry S. Truman in Hiroshima (1995, featured Ken Jenkins and Saul Rubinek).
His feature film credits included Crocodile Dundee II (1988, with Stephen Root), Timecop (1994, with Bruce McGill, Scott Lawrence, and Callum Keith Rennie), Legends of the Fall (1994, with Christina Pickles), The Day After Tomorrow (2004, with Tamlyn Tomita, Mimi Kuzyk, Sheila McCarthy, Aaron Lustig, and Russell Yuen), The Aviator (2004, with Brent Spiner), The Fog (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007, with Doug Jones, Brian Posehn, and Stan Lee), and Silk (2007).
He appeared in guest roles on numerous television series, including Spenser: For Hire (starring Avery Brooks and directed by Winrich Kolbe), The Twilight Zone, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The X-Files (1995, with Michael Berryman), The Outer Limits (narrated by Kevin Conway), Law & Order (1998), Witchblade, The Practice (with Harve Presnell, Norman Lloyd, and Tucker Smallwood), The Murdoch Mysteries, Smallville (with John Glover and Alisen Down), Being Erica, The Expanse (2015, starring Thomas Jane and Shohreh Aghdashloo, with Greg Bryk and Brian George), and The Blacklist (with Enrique Murciano).
Welsh passed away on 5 May 2022 at the age of 80. [1]